What is Ruby Programming

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan. According to its creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp.

It is used in a wide range of fields, but is best known as a language for Web Applications, because of the Ruby on Rails framework. The general purpose nature of Ruby makes it suitable for a wide array of programming tasks, just like Perl, Python and other general purpose languages.

The Language: The Ruby on Rails web framework is built using the Ruby programming language while the Django web framework is built using the Python programming language. This is where much of difference lies. The two languages are visually similar but are worlds apart in their approaches to solving problems.

What companies use Ruby programming?

- Shopify. Founded in 2006, Shopify has raised over $122 million in funding for the growth of its platform. ...

- Crunchbase. One of the leading Startup resources to follow for all-things start-ups - look no further than CrunchBase. ...

- Groupon. ...

- Bloomberg. ...

- Indiegogo. ...

- Airbnb. ...

- SoundCloud. ...

- Bleacher Report.

The name "Ruby" originated during an online chat session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on February 24, 1993, before any code had been written for the language. Initially two names were proposed: "Coral" and "Ruby". Matsumoto chose the latter in a later e-mail to Ishitsuka. Matsumoto later noted a factor in choosing the name "Ruby" – it was the birthstone of one of his colleagues